As usual, there’s a lot of ground to cover, literally and figuratively, in this week’s update. To make it more manageable, I’m going to focus on the owls in the East in this post — I’ll cover the Midwestern birds in the next one. The first owl is one of those close-but-no-cigar situations, so to speak. We’ve been working this … Read More
A Great New Perk in the Final Days
Thank you for your support We’re humbled and grateful beyond words for the support everyone’s extended to Project SNOWstorm again this winter. That’s taken many forms, but especially the over-the-top support for our Indiegogo campaign, which broke its goal of $15,000 last week and has continued to grow. Thank you all very, very much. Your help makes what we do … Read More
Surprises, East to West
Thursday night was our weekly check-in. As always there were some surprises, and some owls we didn’t hear from…whether out of cell range, or suffering a temporarily low battery, we can’t say. Here are ones that checked in. Starting from the east, Orleans remains regular as clockwork along I-81 in upstate New York, just a few miles south of the … Read More
Two New Owls (and a Surprise from Erie)
The past few days have finally held a hint of spring in parts of the Northeast and Midwest where it’s been a long, frigid, snowy winter — but we’re still charging ahead, with two more newly tagged owls to introduce, and a very cool update from one of our 2014 birds. In Wisconsin, Gene Jacobs trapped and tagged an adult female … Read More
Buckeye Hits the Road
We had another busy round of check-ins Thursday night, and now that a few days have passed, we’ve updated the map for eight of our tagged owls. The most unexpected — and welcome — change is Buckeye, who for the past couple of weeks has been haunting the runways of the Toledo Executive Airport in northwestern Ohio. Her habit of … Read More
Stay-at-homes and Wanderers
Yesterday we shared the news about our two latest transmitter owls, Geneseo and Orleans. Now we have an update on how everyone else is doing, based on the last two check-in periods. Let’s start west and work our way east, beginning with Goose Pond in Columbia County, Wisconsin. This adult male has moved about three miles (5 km) south of … Read More
Geneseo and Orleans
There’s been a lot going on at Project SNOWstorm, despite the lack of recent updates. Our core group got hit with travel (and travel delays), illnesses and a few other unavoidable hiccups that kept us occupied the past week or two, but we’re ready to catch everyone up with what’s going on. The biggest news is that we have two … Read More
There’s a Whole Lot Going On
Thursday night was a busy one around here — four of our newest cohort of owls checked in, as well as two of last winter’s returnees. Let’s start with the veterans. Millcreek is still chilling in Toronto, and leading a decidedly terrestrial existence this winter, compared with his floe-riding and ice-wandering on Lake Erie last year. And to our continuing … Read More
Buckeye
Project SNOWstorm has its first Ohio owl — Buckeye, an adult female tagged through the cooperation of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and the Kirtland Bird Club in Cleveland, along with USDA’s Wildlife Services, which trapped and relocated her. Buckeye was a repeated offender at Detroit Metro Airport in Michigan. She was first trapped there in … Read More
Updates Galore
Settle in for a long read, folks — there’s lots of news this week, both on newly tagged snowies and returned birds from last year. We have updates both old and new on Monocacy, whom you’ll recall was just retagged and released last week after being relocated from LaGuardia Airport in Queens. She was originally tagged in March 2014 in … Read More